Entries by Tristram Brelstaff (3025)

Wednesday
Nov132013

Moth

From back in August: moth Pyrausta aurata (Lepidoptera: Pyraustinae).

Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-08-04.

Tuesday
Nov122013

Another Lauxaniid Fly

From the summer of 2012: a Minettia sp, probably a member of the Minettia fasciata group (Diptera: Lauxaniidae).

Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-06-04.

Monday
Nov112013

Lauxaniid Fly

A Calliopum sp (Diptera: Lauxaniidae).

I trapped this specimen and took these two photos later before releasing it.

First photo and specimen taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2013-11-10.

Sunday
Nov102013

Hound's Tongue

From back in early summer: flowers of hound's tongue, Cynoglossum officinale.

The seed-pods look like this:

And the whole plant like this:

Photos taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2013-06-16.

Saturday
Nov092013

Slime Mould

From the summer of 2012: a slime mould Lycogala epidendrum growing on a damp rotting log.  One of the aethalia on the right-hand side is exuding orange liquid.

Photo taken in  Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-06-17.